Re: could not open process token: error code 5

Hello.
I had such an error but rather long ago. Unfortunately I don't remember all the details but you could try to do the followig:
- check if the directory 'data' has read/write rights for your OS account (account under which you try to start postgres).
- check if your OS account has the right to log on as service (Administrative Tools/Local Security Settings/User Rights Assignment)
- check in Computer Management/Local Users and Groups/Users if your OS account is NOT the member of any group of users.

Regards, Marina.

>
> Hi
>
> We have an Postgresql 8.2.5 installation on a Windows server 2003 that have
> worked perfectly for our Mediawiki until we tried to update to 8.4. Before
> the update we took a backup, stopped the service and took a copy of the
> entire database catalog. We could not make the 8.4 (installed in a different
> directory) work so we decided to go back to the initial installation which
> remained intact.
>
> Then when we try to start the service it fails and we get the message "could
> not open process token: error code 5" in the event viewer, nothing else. Now
> after googling for some hours and days I am stuck. the Postgres user are to
> start the service and so nothing is changed there either. Even though the
> database files were not changed, we have also copied the entire original
> database back. The installation has been done with the
> "postgresql-8.2-int.msi" package and it has been reapplied with the
> following command, "msiexec /i postgresql-8.2-int.msi REINSTALLMODE=vamus
> REINSTALL=ALL /"
>
> Still no progress.
>
> What to do?
>
> /Anders
>